Ezekiel 16

1Again the word of the Lord came to me:2b "Son of man, c make known to Jerusalem her abominations,3and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an d Amorite and your mother a e Hittite.4And as for your birth, f on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.5No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, g but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, f on the day that you were born.

6"And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing h in your blood, I said to you h in your blood, 'Live!' I said to you h in your blood, 'Live!'7i I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall j and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet k you were naked and bare.

8"When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and l I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you m and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, n and you became mine.9Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and o anointed you with oil.10p I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk. 111q And I adorned you with ornaments and r put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.12And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.13Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. s You ate fine flour and honey and oil. t You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.14And u your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.

15v "But you trusted in your beauty w and played the whore 2 because of your renown x and lavished your whorings 3 on any passerby; your beauty 4 became his.16You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be. 517You also took y your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and z made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.18And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, a and set my oil and my incense before them.19b Also my bread that I gave you - s I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey - you set before them for c a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God.20d And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and e these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter21that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?22And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember f the days of your youth, g when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

23"And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God),24you built yourself h a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square.25At the head of every street i you built your lofty place and made j your beauty an abomination, k offering yourself 6 to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.26w You also played the whore l with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, m multiplying your whoring, n to provoke me to anger.27Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you o and diminished your allotted portion p and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, q the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.28w You played the whore also r with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied.29You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land t of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

30"How sick is your heart, 7 declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,31building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, u because you scorned payment.32Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!33Men give gifts to all prostitutes, v but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.34So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and v you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.

35"Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord:36Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, w and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,37therefore, behold, x I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and y all those you hated. z I will gather them against you from every side a and will uncover your nakedness to them, that b they may see all your nakedness.38c And I will judge you d as women who commit adultery and e shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.39And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your f vaulted chamber and break down g your lofty places. h They shall strip you of your clothes and take i your beautiful jewels and leave you j naked and bare.40k They shall bring up a crowd against you, l and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.41l And they shall m burn your houses and n execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. o I will make you stop playing the whore, and p you shall also give payment no more.42q So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry.43Because you have not remembered r the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, s I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not t committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?

44"Behold, everyone u who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.'45You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of v your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. w Your mother was a Hittite and w your father an Amorite.46And x your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and y your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.47z Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time a you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.48b As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister c Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.49Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, d excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.50They were haughty and e did an abomination before me. So f I removed them, when I saw it.51g Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and h have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.52i Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

53j "I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst,54that you may bear your disgrace k and be ashamed of all that you have done, l becoming a consolation to them.55As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, j and Samaria and her daughters shall return m to their former state, j and you and your daughters shall return m to your former state.56Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth n in the day of your pride,57before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become o an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria 8 and all those around her, and for p the daughters of the Philistines, q those all around who despise you.58r You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the Lord.

59"For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you s who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,60yet t I will remember my covenant with you u in the days of your youth, v and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.61w Then you will remember your ways x and be ashamed when you take y your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you z as daughters, but not on account of 9 the covenant with you.62I will establish my covenant with you, a and you shall know that I am the Lord,63that you may remember and be confounded, and b never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God."

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 2:1
And he said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 22:2
And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:45
You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Genesis 15:16
And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.
Deuteronomy 7:1
When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:45
You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Deuteronomy 7:1
When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves.
Judges 1:26
And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.

Cross ReferencesHosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst.

Cross ReferencesDeuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:4
And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:22
And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:22
And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:22
And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

Cross ReferencesExodus 1:7
But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:11
And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.
Ezekiel 16:13
Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:22
And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.
Ezekiel 16:39
And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare.
Ezekiel 23:29
And they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring

Cross ReferencesRuth 3:9
He said, "Who are you?" And she answered, "I am Ruth, your servant. Spread your wings over your servant, for you are a redeemer.
Jeremiah 2:2
Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, "I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Cross ReferencesExodus 24:7 - 8
Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, "All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.

Cross ReferencesExodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.

Cross ReferencesRuth 3:3
Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.
Psalms 23:5
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:13
Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and...
Ezekiel 16:18
And you took your embroidered garments to cover...
Ezekiel 26:16
Then all the princes of the sea will step down ...
Ezekiel 27:7
Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your s...
Ezekiel 27:16
Syria did business with you because of your abu...
Exodus 26:36
You shall make a screen for the entrance of the...

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 23:40
They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 23:42
The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
Genesis 24:22
When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels.
Genesis 24:30
As soon as he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and heard the words of Rebekah his sister, "Thus the man spoke to me," he went to the man. And behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
Genesis 24:47
Then I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms.

Cross ReferencesDeuteronomy 32:13 - 14
He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and he suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:15
But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.
Ezekiel 16:25
At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
Psalms 48:2
Beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.

Cross ReferencesLamentations 2:15
All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?
Ezekiel 23:10
These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:13
Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 23:3
They played the whore in Egypt; they played the...
Ezekiel 23:8
She did not give up her whoring that she had be...
Ezekiel 23:11 - 12
Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became mo...
Leviticus 17:7
So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifice...
Isaiah 1:21
How the faithful city has become a whore, she w...
Isaiah 57:8
Behind the door and the doorpost you have set u...
Jeremiah 2:20
For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your b...
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see!...
Jeremiah 3:6
The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah:...
Jeremiah 3:20
Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husban...
Hosea 1:2
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lo...

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:25
At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:11
And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 7:20
His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.
Ezekiel 23:14
But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 23:41
You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.

Cross ReferencesHosea 2:8
And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:13
Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 6:13
And you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:21
That you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
Ezekiel 16:36
Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 20:26
And I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:31
When you present your gifts and offer up your children in fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
Ezekiel 23:37
For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:43
Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
Ezekiel 16:60
Yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:6 - 7
"And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' I said to you in your blood, 'Live!'

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:39
And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:31
Building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
Isaiah 57:7
On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice.
Jeremiah 2:20
For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, 'I will not serve.' Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:14
And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:15
But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:15
But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 20:7 - 8
And I said to them, Cast away the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.
Ezekiel 23:19 - 21
Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 23:14
But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion.
Ezekiel 23:19
Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt

Cross ReferencesJeremiah 7:18 - 19
The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 5:10 - 11
Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:37
Therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:57
Before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you.
2 Samuel 1:20
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:15
But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 23:12
She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
Jeremiah 2:18
And now what do you gain by going to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
Jeremiah 2:36
How much you go about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.
2 Kings 16:7 - 18
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.
2 Chronicles 28:16 - 21
At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 23:14 - 16
But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:33 - 34
Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:41
And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more.
Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:33
Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:20 - 21
And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter
Ezekiel 16:38
And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Cross ReferencesHosea 8:10
Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:27
Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
Ezekiel 23:28
For thus says the Lord God : Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 23:22
Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God : "Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 23:10
These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her.
Ezekiel 23:29
And they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring
Hosea 2:10
Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
Revelation 17:16
And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire.
Ezekiel 16:39
And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare.

Cross ReferencesLamentations 1:8
Jerusalem sinned grievously; therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 21:30
Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 23:45
But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.
Leviticus 20:10
If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

Cross ReferencesGenesis 9:6
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
Ezekiel 18:10
If he fathers a son who is violent, a shedder of blood, who does any of these things
Ezekiel 23:37
For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.
Ezekiel 23:45
But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:24
You built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:25
At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 23:26
They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.
Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:11 - 12
And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:7
I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 23:46
For thus says the Lord God : "Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 23:47
And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.
Joshua 7:24 - 25
And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the cloak and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters and his oxen and donkeys and sheep and his tent and all that he had. And they brought them up to the Valley of Achor.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:40
They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

Cross References2 Kings 25:9
And he burned the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
Jeremiah 39:8
The Chaldeans burned the king's house and the house of the people, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 52:13
And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 5:8
Therefore thus says the Lord God : Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 23:27
Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.
Ezekiel 23:48
Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:33 - 34
Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 5:13
Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the Lord - that I have spoken in my jealousy - when I spend my fury upon them.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:22
And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.
Ezekiel 16:60
Yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 7:4
And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 22:9
There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 12:22
Son of man, what is this proverb that you have about the land of Israel, saying, 'The days grow long, and every vision comes to nothing'?
Ezekiel 18:2 - 3
What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:46
And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:3
And say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:3
And say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:51
Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.
Ezekiel 16:53
I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst.
Ezekiel 16:55
As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state.
Ezekiel 23:4
Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 23:33
You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:48 - 49
As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
Ezekiel 16:53
I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst.
Ezekiel 16:55
As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state.
Isaiah 1:10
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 5:7
Therefore thus says the Lord God : Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 5:11
Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, su...
Ezekiel 14:16
Even if these three men were in it, as I live, ...
Ezekiel 14:18
Though these three men were in it, as I live, d...
Ezekiel 14:20
Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I ...
Ezekiel 17:16
As I live, declares the Lord God, surely in the...
Ezekiel 17:19
Therefore thus says the Lord God : As I live, s...
Ezekiel 18:3
As I live, declares the Lord God, this proverb ...
Ezekiel 20:3
Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and ...
Ezekiel 20:33
As I live, declares the Lord God, surely with a...
Isaiah 49:18
Lift up your eyes around and see; they all gath...
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as I live," declares the Lord of hos...

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:47
Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
Matthew 10:15
Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
Matthew 11:24
But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.

Cross ReferencesGenesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Cross ReferencesGenesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

Cross ReferencesGenesis 19:24
Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:46 - 47
And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:52
Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
Jeremiah 3:11
And the Lord said to me, "Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 32:24
Elam is there, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 29:14
And I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin, and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.
Ezekiel 39:25
Therefore thus says the Lord God : Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name.
Zephaniah 2:7
The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah, on which they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the Lord their God will be mindful of them and restore their fortunes.
Zephaniah 3:20
At that time I will bring you in, at the time when I gather you together; for I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes," says the Lord.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:61
Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 14:22 - 23
But behold, some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out; behold, when they come out to you, and you see their ways and their deeds, you will be consoled for the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:53
I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:53
I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 36:11
And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 36:11
And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Cross ReferencesIsaiah 2:6 - 11
For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

Cross References2 Kings 16:5 - 7
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.
Isaiah 7:1 - 2
In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:27
Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
2 Chronicles 28:18
And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 28:24
And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.
Ezekiel 28:26
And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 14:10
And they shall bear their punishment - the punishment of the prophet and the punishment of the inquirer shall be alike -
Ezekiel 23:35
Therefore thus says the Lord God : Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring.
Ezekiel 23:49
And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord God.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 17:15 - 16
But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he thrive? Can one escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?
Ezekiel 17:18 - 19
He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape.

Cross ReferencesLeviticus 26:42
Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:8
When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine.
Ezekiel 16:22
And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.
Ezekiel 16:43
Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?

Cross ReferencesJeremiah 32:40
I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.
Jeremiah 50:5
They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, 'Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 6:9
Then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:54
That you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 16:45 - 46
You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Cross ReferencesIsaiah 54:1
Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married," says the Lord.

Cross ReferencesEzekiel 6:7
And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Cross ReferencesRomans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.